# Werner Berges artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/werner-berges/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T22:23:14.648Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: German
- Common media: Painting, Printmaking and graphic art, Drawing, Sculpture

## Portrait

![Werner Berges](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Werner_Berges_Emmerich_20070323_PM07.jpg)
Fotograaf: Peli crop by Missvain · CC BY 2.5
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Werner_Berges_Emmerich_20070323_PM07.jpg

## About Werner Berges

Werner Berges (1941–2017) was a German painter, printmaker, graphic artist and draftsman. Authority records from Getty ULAN, VIAF and Wikidata align on his identity and life years; Getty also records his activity across painting, printmaking and drawing-related roles. German- and Dutch-language reference pages describe him as a Pop Art artist and add sculpture to the formats associated with his career. Because that movement label in the collected sources is not supported by a museum, estate or scholarly catalogue, it should be treated as contextual rather than definitive. Collectors may encounter Berges through paintings, prints and other graphic works, drawings, or sculpture. Distinguishing a unique work from a print or other multiple is therefore central to identification and comparison. The available sources establish a clear public entity but provide little detail about subjects, named series, chronology or exhibition history, so those areas should not be inferred without further documentation.

## Common works and media

Works associated with Werner Berges in the collected sources include paintings, prints and other graphic works, drawings, and sculptures. Getty ULAN provides the strongest support for painting, printmaking, graphic art and drawing; sculpture appears in the German-language reference material. The source pack does not reliably identify recurring subjects, named series, edition sizes or specific techniques, so those details should be established from the object itself, its documentation and relevant catalogue or auction records.

## Market and appraisal context

A Werner Berges appraisal should begin by identifying the object as a painting, print, drawing, other graphic work or sculpture. Comparables are most useful when they match that work type and distinguish unique objects from multiples. Authority identifiers can help prevent confusion with similarly named people, but they do not establish the attribution of a particular object. The collected Appraisily input indicates an auction-record corpus, although the public page was rate-limited during collection and no individual lots, realized prices or sale dates could be verified. This evidence therefore supports category-level guidance, not a price prediction or claim about market direction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices and comparable lots when those records are available and can be verified.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q661398
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500080941
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/20471275/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/224550640
- RKD: https://rkd.nl/en/explore/artists/219395
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Berges
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Berges
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/werner-berges/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Werner_Berges_Emmerich_20070323_PM07.jpg